In this episode I talk about the power of making choices.
Many of us often we find ourselves in difficult situations and get so focused on the pain and the shame and the disappointment and the limitations that we put on ourselves that we don’t always realize we don’t have to be there. That the prison we create for ourselves is only in our lack of awareness in the fact that we can leave whenever we want. We can get up and remove ourselves from those circumstances. Anytime we want we can change our thoughts, our physical situation, our mindsets. The second we realize that we are not bound by any of those things, we are free. One of the greatest gifts we have as humans on this planet of free will, is that we ALWAYS have a choice.
I think that is something so many of us forget. That we always have a choice. Even when we feel trapped. Even when we feel like we are a victim of our circumstances. Even when we can’t control the outcome. We always have choices available to us.
And in those situations I think we often get hung up on the choices that aren’t ours to make. We can’t choose what someone else does. We can’t choose how someone else reacts. We can’t choose what someone else thinks or believes.
But we do have autonomy over ourselves. We can choose a different action. We can choose a different circumstance. We can choose a different thought. We can choose to see things from a different angle. We can choose to stay or go. We can choose to put ourselves first. We can choose to shift our values. We can choose to say no to things that don’t feel good to us and that don’t serve us. And we can choose those things regardless of what someone else does or what they think or how they may respond to the choice we make.
The key is allowing ourselves to step back enough and look at our situation from a wider angle. To gain awareness of what is actually happening around us and how we are choosing to participate in it. Looking radically at our own thoughts, beliefs, choices, behaviors, and making changes accordingly rather than looking outside of ourselves at other people and their thoughts, beliefs, choices, and behaviors wishing they would choose differently. That is not within our control. But what we do is.
What choices can you make to start living your life more intentionally?
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